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Arsenal is the sort of name one would expect from a metal, punk, or hardcore band, but Oyebo Soul is none of those things; Arsenal is actually one of the many club-minded acts that has been fusing electronica and world music in the '90s and 2000s. Of course, the term "world/electronica fusion" can refer to a variety of things. It could be something harsh, amelodic, or abrasive; techno and other styles of in-your-face rave music have been combined with everything from Middle Eastern and Indian music to the Irish and Scottish forms of Celtic music. But Oyebo Soul doesn't get into the harsher types of electronica; like many other CDs that Kriztal Entertainment has put out in the 2000s, Oyebo Soul favors the kinder, gentler side of electronica. This 2004 release is consistently melodic, and parts of it are downright lush. But one thing Oyebo Soul is not is predictable. During the course of the album, Hendrik Willemyns and John Roan -- the Belgian producers who comprise Arsenal -- combine club beats with the music of places ranging from Brazil ("A Volta," "Dinah") to Africa ("Angola," "Amelaka Motinga"). And not everything on Oyebo Soul is aimed at the dancefloor; "Longee," for example, is one of Arsenal's more rock-influenced offerings, and "Far I Have Come" has a strong African pop flavor -- it's a tune that fans of Miriam Makeba or Ladysmith Black Mambazo shouldn't have a problem appreciating. In some cases, albums as far-reaching as Oyebo Soul can sound confused or unfocused -- they can give the impression that the artist went into the studio without a solid game plan. But that isn't a problem for Arsenal, whose Oyebo Soul manages to be focused and unpredictable at the same time. ~ Alex Henderson
Belgium Duo Fuses World Beat & Electronica.
Audio Mixer: Ray Mang.
Recording information: Boulevard; LAJ Studios.
Photographer: Guy Kokken.
Arsenal: Hendrik Williams, John Roan.
Personnel: Sagat Guirey (guitar); Andy Waterworth (double bass); Raj Gupta (drums, drum programming).
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This is a collection of Spanish and American songs by Queen's lead singer Freddie Mercury and opera singer Montserrat Caballe.
With Barcelona, Queen singer Freddie Mercury realized his long-lived dream of performing with an opera singer; in this case, Montserrat Caballe. While it's certainly a treat for any fan of Mercury's to hear this album, it's a difficult record to recommend. Most fans of opera will probably find it far too simplistic and pop-based, while many rock fans are sure to find the record too classical. The first half of the album, however, is deserving of a spin for any open-minded listener. Consisting of semi-operatic melodies with grand production, songs like "Barcelona" and the Eastern-sounding "La Japonaise" are startling in their beauty; the two singers from opposite ends of the music spectrum working surprisingly well off each other. The most classically operatic pieces of the project, ...
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A handy single-disc consolidation of the three-disc box set THE LOOK OF LOVE, THE VERY BEST OF BURT BACHARACH drops the rarities and oddities for a 16-track blast of nothing but the biggest hits, over a third of which are sung by Bacharach and Hal David's premier vocal partner, Dionne Warwick. Other singers include Gene Pitney, the Shirelles, Dusty Springfield, and Christopher Cross, all of them performing ...
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The title to this 16-track collection has more than its share of quirks and wrinkles. Fully 14 tracks are duplicated with The School of Rock 'n' Roll: Best of Gary U.S. Bonds, released by Rhino in 1990, making it a negligible buy for anyone who already owns that earlier compilation. All the chart hits are here, including "New Orleans," "Quarter to Three," "School Is Out" (again with the ...
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| | Fink Biscuits For Breakfast CD (2006) (Import) Germany
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One has to give the NinjaTune label credit for taking a chance on Biscuits for Breakfast. When we last listened in on Finian Greenhall (aka Fink), he was making ambient trip-hop beats (2000s Fresh Produce), and a long six years later he's become a full-blown, guitar picking singer/songwriter. No, we're not speaking of the whiskey-rotted, cowboy-hatted, delusional Americana of a Townes Van Zandt wannabe, nor the wasted Cocaine California decadence of the Jackson Browne-Eagles brood, nor the weepy, terminally depressed Nick Drake-wish-upon-a-Pink Moon-songstrelsy either. Instead, Fink's gone his own way. That's not to say the sounds of his heroes aren't in here: one can hear John Martyn in his noirish approach to jazzy acoustic blues, the bottleneck influence of Peter Green (post-Fleetwood Mac y'all) and even the fingerpicking toughness of Davy Graham. There is a wonderfully intimate smokiness in Fink's approach to his songs. It's intimate, but utterly lacking in sentimentalism,. Check the opener "Pretty Little Thing," on which he plays the whole menagerie: bass, guitar (nylon strings, no less), and B-3. The lyrics in this cut are not much to be sure, but as a first track Fink's looking to usher in the set's atmosphere, and as such it works beautifully. Dave Matthews would kill to have written a tune like this one for his "solo" album Some Devil. The real surprise is when his co-writers -- bassist Guy Whittaker and drummer Tim Thornton -- and bandmates jump in on "Pills in My Pocket." The steel-string acoustic comes out, as does the bottleneck slide, a shuffling rhythm ushers in his streetlife tale matter-of-factly. Vocalist Tina Grace (Nitin Sawhney, Cirque du Soleil) sings lead on the swampy, spooky love song "Hush Now," as Fink plays slide, and sings backup and creates a series of shuffling little loops that enter the picture. The title track has a few sparse FX on it, but the tone is a moaning little streetwise blues and the main instrument is his voice. It's expressive and emotive even as it slips and shimmers just above the skeletal mix. There is no overkill here. As much as this album uses the blues, it's hardly a roots blues album; it's thoroughly urban in imagery, utterance, sophistication, steamy eroticism, and rhythm (albeit in a mostly organic, post-2 A.M. way). At just over 36 minutes, its length is perfect. Biscuits for Breakfast ...
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